PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE<\/p>\n
Current\u00c2\u00a0Founder and Director, The Dreamsters Union
\nCurrent\u00c2\u00a0Certified Core Alignment Creativity Consultant and Coach
\nCurrent\u00c2\u00a0Co-director, Compassionate Action Enterprises.
\nCurrent\u00c2\u00a0Private Instructor, Studio Art; Contemporary Art Issues; English; Freelance Editor.
\nCurrent\u00c2\u00a0Contributing Author, Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, Wise Brain Bulletin, essayist.
\n2002\u00c2\u00a0Guest Lecturer, California Polytechnic University, Visiting Artists Lecture Series, San Luis Obispo, California.
\n2000\u00c2\u00a0Guest Lecturer, Shinsu University, Ueda, Nagano, Japan.
\n2000\u00c2\u00a0Guest Lecturer, California State University Stanislaus Visiting Artists Lecture Series, Turlock, California.
\n2000\u00c2\u00a0C0-founder, Compassionate Action Enterprises, in collaboration with Joan Giroux. Compassionate Action Enterprises promotes art and interaction \u00c2\u00a0geared toward Ecofeminism\/environmental ethics, social, political and cultural activism.
\n1999\u00c2\u00a0Presenter, National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution, Phoenix, Arizona.
\n1999\u00c2\u00a0Guest Lecturer, Montgomery College Visiting Artists Lecture Series, Takoma Park, Maryland.
\n1998\u00c2\u00a0Guest Lecturer, Department of Art and Design, University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas.
\n1997\u00c2\u00a0Guest Lecturer, Department of Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara.
\n1996\u00c2\u00a0Visiting Artist, Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames, England.
\n1996\u00c2\u00a0Guest Lecturer, Department of Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara, January, March 1996, course: New Forms Sculpture.
\n1995-96\u00c2\u00a0Artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Assistant, Studio assistant to Kim Yasuda. Projects assisted on: Galarza Public Art Project, San Jose California; Green Line Metro Project, \u00c2\u00a0Los Angeles, California; Hollywood Metro Project, Hollywood, California, Unquiet, LIST Center for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts Institute of \u00c2\u00a0Technology; Installation at Camera Works, London, England.
\n1995-96\u00c2\u00a0Artist Liaison, Food from the Hood. Worked in collaboration with students at Crenshaw High School, South Central, Los Angeles, to create an \u00c2\u00a0element of a public art project in response to the Los Angeles Uprising\/life in South Central Los Angeles.
\n1995-96\u00c2\u00a0Assistant Director, Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara California.
\n1995-96\u00c2\u00a0Director of Art, Albion Repertory Theatre Company, Santa Barbara, California.
\n1995\u00c2\u00a0Curator of Children’s Art, Santa Barbara Coastal Project 1995.
\n1994\u00c2\u00a0Research Assistant, Department of Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara.
\n1993-94\u00c2\u00a0Associate Teacher, Department of Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara. Dialogue on the nature of sculpture and the role it plays in \u00c2\u00a0contemporary art and culture.
\n1992-93\u00c2\u00a0Teaching Assistant, Department of Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara. Assisted professors
\nin the areas of: Sculpture, Printmaking, Drawing, and Contemporary Art Theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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